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(a) Give the number of specimens received during the year. (This number should include deposits, and all other specimens received, regardless of their final disposition.)
(b) Give the total number of specimens in your custody, after making allowance for deductions through waste material, exchanges and distributions.
(c) Give the number of the last entries in your catalogue on June 30, 1896, and June 30, 1897.

a. The total number of specimens rec'd during the year as elsewhere stated is estimated at 10,400.
b. The number of specimens in the custody of the department was estimated for 1895-6 as follows,
Reserve or study collection      539,398
Duplicates                        12,522
Unregistered mixed material       28,000
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Total                            579,920  
Deducting sent out in exchange        800
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                                 579,120
Received during 1896-7            10,400
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                                 589,520
Additional alcoholics               -980-
                                  42780
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Total (exclusive of fossils)     632 300
Tertiary fossils registered       67 145
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Total                            699 445

Without doubt the largest collection of Molluscan material in any museum in the world.